Noa Yekutieli
Noa
Yekutieli

Noa Yekutieli was born in California (USA) in 1989 and immigrated to Israel as a young child. Yekutieli lives and works in Tel Aviv (Israel).


Artist's statement


I see myself as a memory researcher who comes to life as a visual artist. My work aims to take the viewer through a personal memory quest, raising questions regarding the differences between memories and how they translate into perceiving our reality, and how this forms out consciousness.
For the past few years I have been conducting an autodidactic research of paper-cutting technique focusing on 2-dimensional pieces in black and white, as well as on site-specific installations, which often include ready made objects and a combination of the ready-mades and my paper cut works. I explore the fickle nature of memory through natural disasters and man made disasters, which erase and change an entire physical reality, leaving only memories that gradually blur and dissolve to make room for a newly evolving reality. The disaster, however, is not the subject of my work, but only the frame story whereby I observe the resulting void, the locus whose absence we feel and strive to fill the place, which we miss. I arrived at the all so sensitive and volatile subject of natural and man made disasters because there is something about such an extreme event that leads to a concise process of memory construction, and due to living in a reality of conflict.


Unlike other art techniques where you usually add material like in drawing, painting and sculpture, in paper cutting it is a process of subtraction. The void, the missing, creates the image and the memories.

 

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Alternative Space? Artist-run Space?
Alright, so today we have reached an understanding that “alternative space” has merely a historical connotation left, whereas “artist-run space” cuts directly to the chase, but still nothing is explained through these terms. We suggest a temporary halt on the investigation of terminology. The significance lies in what we do, what we did and what we will be doing next.

So what have you been up to?
In short, we practice art and curate exhibitions. When able, we also organize forums, launch publications and initiate projects for international artistic exchange. If you haven’t the time to read the brief introduction on the back, all you need to remember is this: our job is to generate new dialogues between art and the public and to offer the world something different for a change, or at the very least, we try our best when making mistakes.

Why not simply focus on practicing art?
It’s not that simple. In fact, there is no such thing as simply practicing art. Contemporary art and its viewers have broken away from the monotonous relationship of simply paying a visit to the museum. Whether people are aware of it or not, art has undoubtedly permeated into every aspect of our lives. Therefore, a genuine art practitioner would not shy away when met face to face with genuine public issues. We simply want to do it better.

Where does your funding come from?
Unemployment subsidies. That was a joke. We operate with funds which come from our own pockets and occasional help from limited government funding—translation: we are often short of cash.

Are all members artists?
We were founded as an artist-based organization, but are delighted to have recruited more and more members from interdisciplinary professions in recent years. As for the artists, you may still catch a glimpse of them from time to time carrying a spear and shield, riding a scrawny horse and followed around by a fox hound.

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